Author: Dann Corbit
Date: 12:39:50 05/11/00
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On May 11, 2000 at 15:33:09, Jason Williamson wrote: >On May 11, 2000 at 15:29:18, Dann Corbit wrote: > >>On May 11, 2000 at 15:14:30, Rajen Gupta wrote: >> >>>Hi all: i read on the chessbase site that junior will be playing in the >>>supergrandmaster tournament on an 8 proceesor system-i thought that the maximum >>>number of CPUs for a xeon based system is 4 and for a coppermine based system >>>was 2.Will junior be playing on an alpha based system or has intel now built >>>motherboards that can take more than 4 xeons? >> >>ProLiant 8500: >>http://www.nt-advantage.com/adv-1999-09/adv-09-8way-pov.html >> >>If it were ported to Alpha, he could have a lot more CPU's than that. >>Ludicrously more: >>http://www.digital.com/hpc/news/news_hptc_review2000.html >More? On 8 processors that program will be scary.... Of course on 100 >processors it would be even more scary. :)) The high performace computing review mentions 512 CPU Alpha systems, and of course, these systems cluster so you can basically create as many CPUs as you want. Even thousands. The specifically mention a 4TF system. 4000GF or 4000000MF. Not bad.
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